Hard to believe that its already August! Usually the fall until the end of the year speed by. Hope that you’re taking moments to reflect, hydrate, and be in community with others. If you’ve been enjoying this free newsletter, please consider sharing with a friend.
Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global pl …
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
When you learn <10% plastics are recycled. Thanks Ex*on 😒
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 50+
- Job Opps: 110+
- Contract Opps: 15+
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Tech for Good Impact Awards by Zendesk
- Who it's for: The Tech for Good Impact Awards offer grants and free software to nonprofit organizations making a difference in community building, crisis resilience, and tech career access.
- Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000
- Deadline: 8/15/2025 👈🏽 🚨
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Defending Medicaid and Medicare by WITH Foundation
- Who it's for: The WITH Foundation is offering grants for one-year projects that defend, strengthen, and expand Medicaid and Medicare supports for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Funding Amount: $100,000
- Deadline: 8/15/2025 👈🏽 🚨
- How to Apply: Click Here
- VHBOS Fellowship by Visible Hands
- Who it's for: The VHBOS Fellowship is a ten-week hybrid program offering early-stage entrepreneurs in Greater Boston hands-on support and a non-dilutive grant. It fosters a diverse community of founders and provides access to local and national networks.
- Funding Amount: $5,000
- Deadline: 8/22/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Accelerator Program by Fast Forward
- Who it's for: Fast Forward’s Accelerator supports early-stage tech nonprofits with funding, mentorship, and training. The program helps bridge the gap between the tech and nonprofit sectors through a tailored curriculum and peer community.
- Funding Amount: $25,000
- Deadline: 9/8/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Building the Field by The Cooperative Education Fund
- Who it's for: The Cooperative Education Fund provides grants to support cooperative education programs, event sponsorships, and educational materials.
- Funding Amount: $75,000 - $100,000
- Deadline: 10/1/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
💰 View All Funding Opps in the Funding Database 💰
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Organization: Foundation for the Mid South
- Location: Jackson, MS; In-Person
- Description: The Chief Strategy Officer will lead the development and execution of the Foundation’s strategic plan, aligning initiatives with its mission and long-term goals. This executive role will collaborate with leadership to drive growth, identify opportunities, and enhance organizational performance.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $73,500 - $120,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- National Plastics Organizer
- Organization: Bennington College / Beyond Plastics
- Location: Bennington, VT; Remote
- Description:The National Plastics Organizer will lead grassroots campaigns to block chemical recycling facilities and promote safer alternatives. This role involves coalition building, public education, and strategic advocacy to support environmental justice and public health goals.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $90,000 - $100,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- General Manager
- Organization: Elephant Energy
- Location: Boston, MA; Hybrid
- Description: The General Manager will lead Elephant Energy’s operations in the Boston market, driving profitability, managing sales and delivery teams, and cultivating strategic partnerships. This role requires a hands-on leader with experience scaling early-stage businesses and optimizing operational processes.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $140,000-$170,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Conference and Convening Manager
- Organization: ABFE, A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: The Conference and Convening Manager will oversee the planning and execution of ABFE’s conferences, webinars, and events, including its annual hybrid conference. This role involves managing logistics, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and supporting virtual and in-person programming across departments.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $73,500 - $84,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Director of Community Partnerships
- Organization: Heron
- Location: Preference for Birmingham, AL; Remote
- Description: The Director of Community Partnerships will support the development and implementation of Heron’s Community Capitals Partner Network, fostering collaboration and capacity building in rural communities. This role involves partner engagement, technical assistance, and convening national networks to advance community-driven development.
- Deadline to Apply: 8/22/2025
- Salary: $131,000-$155,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
💼. See all the Job Opps on the Job Board 💼
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Call for Submissions: Glitch 2025 Environmental Justice and Tech Zine
- Issued By: Rooted Futures Lab
- Scope: Glitch 2025 is seeking submissions for its annual zine focused on environmental justice and cyberorganisms.
- Budget: $200 honorarium
- Deadline for Proposals: 8/15/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Communications Consultant
- Issued By: Reinvent Stockton Foundation
- Scope: Reinvent Stockton Foundation seeks a consultant to support internal and external messaging, media relations, and community engagement from August 2025 through December 2026.
- Funding: $80,000 - $100,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 8/15/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- Call for Applicants: Executive Director Intensive Program
- Issued By: The Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF)
- Scope: GNOF is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 EDI, a leadership development program for nonprofit executive directors, which includes in-person and virtual sessions focused on strategy, financial sustainability, governance, and talent development.
- Budget: N/A
- Deadline for Proposals: 8/29/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
📝 View all opportunities in Contract & RFP Catalog 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks by Joseph Winters for Grist
Representatives from countries around the world are gathered this week in Geneva via the UN-sponsored Global Plastics Treaty. This event a continuation from the talks held last year in Busan, South Korea where these talks ended without an agreement, largely due to petro states obstructing the consensus-based process. These talks are critical because IF, and its a big IF, the treaty would be legally enforceable and could place caps on plastic production. We’re cheering on some of our readers who are there and involved in the negotiations! 💪🏾😤
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- Date: 9/8/2025; 12:30 - 4:00 pm ET
- Location: Zoom
- Host: Justice Funders
- Description: “This training will trace the history of institutional philanthropy in the United States, from which current extractive philanthropic practices are derived, to understand how inequity has been built into the sector. Considering the cultural “source codes” of philanthropy will provide the grounding for participants to consider a more just and thriving world and to explore how we can be effective change agents within our institutions. During this interactive and participatory training, we will discuss: What will it take to get to transformation? How might we redistribute wealth, democratize power and shift economic control to communities for the good of the whole?”
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Date: 9/18/2025 - 9/20/2025
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Host: Boston Ujima Project, Kensington Corridor Trust, Community Desk Chicago & more
- Description: “The Assembly of Black Possibilities is our biennial national convening for solidarity economy practitioners and communities. The gathering brings together working-class individuals, Black and Indigenous communities, people of color, and solidarity economy practitioners.”
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
While the impacts of the climate crisis are always felt locally, we inhabit a shared planet and have a shared future. So while the US is trying its hardest to backslide on progress, nation states, advocates, sustainability-minded ventures are working tireless to build a future that we all benefit from.
Over 90+ countries have signed onto plastic production caps. Led by Mexico, they issued the following statement at the talks in South Korea:
“The ambitious and willing majority of states stand ready — to move forward and conclude this obligation. Let us seize this moment to deliver the decisive action that our people and our planet urgently need.”
Some of the signatories include:
Brazil. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Namibia. Philippines. Italy. Trinidad & Tobago. Grenada. Bhutan. Honduras.
Forwarded this email? Bet! 😤
Subscribe to Common River today 🙌🏾
Got an opportunity to share — Click Here!
In solidarity,
Trace
